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13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
To understand and be understood, those are among life’s greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success need... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Concept of art that magnifies your spirit. (Introspect)
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed , “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy.
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Supply creates its own demand. Only by consistently supplying it can we hope to increase the demand for the substantive over the superficial — in our individual lives and in the collective dream called culture.
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Be generous. Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
- When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal a
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click i... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as important, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolute... See more